Gavin Eugene Long

Gavin Eugene Long (17 July 1987-17 July 2016) was an African-American black separatist who shot and killed three police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on his 29th birthday in response to the recent police killings of unarmed African-Americas. His attack came less than two weeks after Micah Xavier Johnson killed five policemen, an act which Long called "justice".

Biography
Gavin Eugene Long was born on 17 July 1987 in Kansas City, Missouri to a family of African-Americans. Long joined the US Marine Corps in 2005, spending one year fighting in the Iraq War before being honorably discharged in 2010 with the rank of sergeant. Long believed in black separatism, joining the New Freedom Group to oppose the United States government. Long was angered by the killings of African-Americans by racist police across the United States, and he called Micah Xavier Johnson's killing of five Dallas policemen an act of "justice"; he also published Youtube videos under an alias, criticizing the government. In July 2016, he stole a rental car and drove to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he used an assault rifle to fire indiscriminately in the air near a convenience store. Police responded to the gunshots, and Long followed Johnson's example and ambushed them. He killed three policemen before he was gunned down, and a robot checked his body for explosives.